1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002654570403321

Autore

Christopher, Martin

Titolo

New Horizons in distribution & materials management (a cura di)Martin Christopher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford : MCB University Press, 1982

Descrizione fisica

129pp 24 cm

Locazione

ECA

Collocazione

4-6-229-TI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782717203321

Autore

Fulton Gordon D

Titolo

Styles of meaning and meanings of style in Richardson's Clarissa [[electronic resource] /] / Gordon D. Fulton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-282-85807-6

9786612858079

0-7735-6784-4

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 250 p

Disciplina

823/.6

Soggetti

English literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa -- Proverbs and the Language of Control -- The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning -- Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for



Love -- Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson’s Revision of Libertine Style -- Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson’s Reform of Libertine Desire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using socially and culturally engaged discourse stylistics, Fulton explores ideologies of social formation, gender, and sexuality in the novel. The first part of the study, "Styles of Meaning," discusses Richardson's use of the genres of sententiousness (moral sentiments and proverbs) to engage questions of ideology. Fulton shows how Richardson draws on the socially significant difference between proverbs and maxims to develop contrasting styles in which his characters establish and defend personal identities in relation to family and friends. The second part, "Meanings of Style," explores ways in which meanings created through linguistic choices in the critical domains of gender and sexuality both sustain and sometimes betray characters struggling either to control or to resist being controlled by others. A contribution to both critical discussion of eighteenth-century fiction and to discourse stylistics committed to relating literary texts to their social and cultural contexts, this study introduces a mode of literary stylistic analysis with exciting possibilities for cultural studies.